Faralli and Mazzanti Antas V8 - BMW.SG

**Mockngbrd** · #1 (**permalink**) 05-05-2006, 12:22 PM

Faralli and Mazzanti Antas V8

Farralli and Mazzanti, an Italian classic car restoration company, has created their first touring car, the Antas V8. Exhibited the other side of the border from Villa d’Este at the Top Marques exhibition in Monaco, the Antas V8 is also the first car created entirely in-house by Farralli and Mazzanti.

Powered by a Maserati V8 – with carburettors – the Antas V8 is inspired both philosophically and materially by past ‘special series’. To this end, it is entirely built by hand using aluminium, whose form is most distinctive at the rear where the screen is split by a prominent fin. The profile is characterised by voluptuous haunches.

Buyers of the Farralli and Mazzanti Antas V8 will also be presented with a case containing photographs and DVD documenting the car’s manufacture.

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ANTAS V8 GT is the first 'Berlinetta' (touring car) created in the F & M workshop. It is completely inspired by the philosophy and material used in the 'special series' of the past: the body, for example, is made of aluminium and completely built by hand.

ANTAS is driven by a powerful V8 MASERATI engine fed by carburettors and endowed with a pleasing elasticity of power, which gives the 'driver' the sensation of 'true' steering typical of the great touring cars of the past. Because of this, when the time came to name this 'jewel,' a word was chosen that comes from the ancient Tuscan language of the ETRUSCANS: ANTAS, which means EAGLE, the noblest and most audacious dominator of open spaces.

On delivery, ANTAS comes equipped with a case covered in blue velvet bearing the silver plate with the identification numbers; inside are a photography book and a DVD documenting the construction of the vehicle.